Cultivating Learning within Projects

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Introduction

   • Andrew Sense

   Pages 1-16

3. Conceptualizing Learning Within a Project

   • Andrew Sense

   Pages 17-44

4. Sociological Perspectives and Learning in Projects

   • Andrew Sense

   Pages 45-65

5. Cognitive Style

   • Andrew Sense

   Pages 66-92

6. Learning Relationships and Pyramid of Authority

   • Andrew Sense

   Pages 93-135

7. Knowledge Management and Situational Context

   • Andrew Sense

   Pages 136-166

8. The Project Learning Opportunity: Where to Now?

   • Andrew Sense

   Pages 167-180

9. Back Matter

   Pages 181-200

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This book offers a fresh perspective on how to cultivate learning within a project environment. It provides a framework to facilitate project practitioners' systematic reflection on their learning activities and to help them build a project learning practice. Combining theory and data, it will appeal to a wide academic and practitioner audience.

• environment
• knowledge management
• learning
• management
• science and technology

' there are some very important and timely messages in this text, underpinned by rigorous research activity, and they are articulated in a precise and meticulous manner by an author who is an undoubted leader in his subject I would unreservedly commend this book to all academics with an interest in the area.' Steve Leybourne, International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

ANDREW SENSE is an academic whose primary research interest involves investigating and explaining social phenomenon in the practice world of project management. Complementing his academic qualifications and expertise in this area, he has many years of industry experience in senior management and project management roles in Australian manufacturing industry.

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